{"id":608243,"date":"2026-05-28T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608243\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:52:08","slug":"crystal-palace-wait-on-andoni-iraola-with-frank-lampard-among-plan-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608243\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace wait on Andoni Iraola with Frank Lampard among plan Bs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As BBC Sport revealed earlier this month<\/a>, Iraola is the man Palace want to replace the outgoing Oliver Glasner, who insisted after the triumph in Germany that he has no plans to reverse his decision.<\/p>\n

They have made the Spaniard a proposal and are awaiting his answer, within that are assurances that he will be permitted significant influence over the recruitment operation.<\/p>\n

It is understood Palace want an answer by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n

The move is ambitious. Iraola has emerged as one of the brightest managers in European football; Bournemouth<\/a>‘s qualification for next season’s Europa League illustrative of his impressive body of work.<\/p>\n

“We have got a taste for it now, we want to keep it going,” said owner Steve Parish following the win over Rayo Vallecano.<\/p>\n

“We have gone up a level and we have got to try and stay there. We will have a week to celebrate and then work hard in the summer.”<\/p>\n

Palace believe they have done all they can to convince Iraola that they can provide the platform for him to continue building his reputation.<\/p>\n

All that is left is Iraola’s approval.<\/p>\n

If the 43-year-old declines then Palace will move on to plan B.<\/p>\n

Among the alternatives is understood to be Frank Lampard, who has key admirers in the Palace boardroom.<\/p>\n

Releasing Lampard from his contract with Coventry provides an obvious stumbling block should Palace pivot to the former Chelsea<\/a> midfielder.<\/p>\n

But there is some optimism at Palace that Lampard, who is aware of the Premier League club’s interest in him, would be open to joining ahead of next season.<\/p>\n

Kieran McKenna, Pierre Sage, Sean Dyche and Thomas Frank have also been discussed as options.<\/p>\n

Luring Iraola to Selhurst Park would be represent a coup for Palace, but the fact he’s taken so long to decide has led to a degree of scepticism inside Selhurst Park over whether the now-departed Bournemouth<\/a> head coach is prepared to accept.<\/p>\n

Much will become clearer in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As BBC Sport revealed earlier this month, Iraola is the man Palace want to replace the outgoing Oliver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}